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The conceptual development of victimology and recognition of victims under legal justice system took its time to reach India, impacting the coordination between victim and justice responses. In present time, the retributive approach of relief for victims has taken a turn towards restorative justice implementation by the introduction of new enactment of three new criminal laws. Still an imbalance between the victim's safety and the perpetrator's accountability can be observed as there is no acknowledgment of victims as a community. This absence of the victim's cultural relevance as a community directly impacts the key elements that contribute to the victim's restorative justice programs and support services. This lack of coordination between community readiness toward victims, survivors' services, and judicial responses has left no place for the survivors to turn. The victim justice initiatives are in their initial stage in the country despite of all the insight provided by victimology into the psychological, social, and legal needs of the survivors. It needs optimizing and some structural enhancements to establish a haven for victims as a community to safeguard them from secondary victimization and help them heal psychologically and socially. In this paper, an endeavor has been made to discuss the development of victims as a community by introducing Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Meetings model as a framework for survivors so that victim justice practices can effectively support survivors and restorative justice is taken a step forward towards therapeutic justice.